Essays Tagged: "Nickel"

Manual Metal Arc Welding (MMA) & Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)

strong welds grew, manual metal arc and coated electrodes became a unit; Stainless steel, inconel, nickel and cast iron electrodes are also commonly used, as are surfacing type electrodes for the bui ... y the particular materials and work being done. It is used on all thicknesses of steels, aluminium, nickel, stainless steels etc. Due to the process being semiautomatic, low operator skill is required ...

(9 pages) 68 0 4.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering

Metal allergies common to body piercees

is forever'. Pure gold will keep its shine no matter what and if truly pure it will not release any nickel or other contaminants into the bodies of the allergic or hypersensitive.Secondly, gold is ext ... e' and get dissolved into your body. 14 K 'gold' is frequently unsafe for those who have developed 'nickel allergy' - a hypersensitivity to nickel. 18 K is usually safer, except for 'white gold' where ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Dominican Republic

rtant resource in the Dominican Republic it has many mineral resources. Some of these resources are nickel being the leading export as well as bauxite, gold, and rock salt.The population of the Domini ... oleum, petroleum products, foodstuffs, and machinery. The countries main exports are sugar and ferronickel. The US is the Dominican Republic's main trading partner but it also trades with Venezuela, M ...

(3 pages) 117 0 3.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Industrial Heartland--Megalopolis

or primary industry. The Industrial Heartland has many different mining sites throughout it.(ex-the nickel mine in Ontario, mines in Pittsburgh, Gary, Baltimore, Hamilton, Sault Ste.Marie....etc.)Tran ...

(3 pages) 49 0 3.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Time Machine

machine.The next day he was working on the time machine the whole day. He found out that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this he had to get remade, so that the thing was not ...

(7 pages) 106 0 3.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The distribution, exhibition and production of the Nickeldeon theatres.

Although short-lived, the nickelodeon theatre was a pioneer movie house. It's reign began in 1905 and lasted a mere nine years ... ure an audience that would continue to support it for another forty years. After the decline of the nickelodeon it still survived in popular legend as a monument to movies in their age of innocence (M ... survived in popular legend as a monument to movies in their age of innocence (Merritt, 1976 p59)The nickelodeon was a small, uncomfortable makeshift theater. It was commonly a converted dance hall, re ...

(12 pages) 61 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

A battery recycling proposal for a small scale community like a school.

rolyte to produce the batteries power. It is these heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel which can leak and in turn, contaminate the environment when batteries are disposed of improp ...

(2 pages) 65 0 3.7 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Raises questions today's minimum-wage practices. Describes three major flaws with America's salary system. TITLE: "Nickel & Dimed: Not Enough"

Nickel & Dimed: Not EnoughI'm writing my first assignment, which was something I was quite nervo ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The origin of the earth

ydrogen and helium. There was only about 1% of some of the heavier elements, oxygen, silicon, iron, nickel, and others noble gasses. The huge ball of gasses was spinning, and the force of the spin cau ... one year, it formed in a week. The early earth consisted of billions and billions of tons of iron, nickel, oxygen and silicon. There was a small amount of aluminum and magnesium. Eventually all of th ...

(2 pages) 76 1 2.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Comparing and Contrasting the Author's Use of Style in "The Standard of Living" and "The Lesson"

for the game that had narrowed it and made it stricter with the condition that you must spend every nickel of the money on yourself. Annabel and Midge had the same style; they looked alike in the shap ...

(2 pages) 90 0 3.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

GSM - management of change

Gulf States Metals Inc. (GSM) is a large nickel refinery plant that has suffered poor financial performance and is under the threat of being ... cesses of material handling, copper extraction, cobalt extraction, ammonia sulphate extraction, and nickel extraction. There are also supervisors who manage production for swing, graveyard and weekend ... compete for access to machines. Production requires the machines to continue running and producing nickel, while Maintenance requires windows of time to perform maintenance of those machines. This sy ...

(17 pages) 307 0 1.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Promotion and Price Analysis

ble anywhere in the world. From today's 'Joy of Pepsi,' as sung by Britney Spears, to yesterday's 'Nickel, Nickel' (1939), our ads are as memorable as the products we produce (http://www.pepsi.com)." ...

(6 pages) 175 0 3.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Explaining a concept- Nickel Defense.

e offense puts 3 or more wide receivers on the field, and ideal defense would be what is called the nickel defense. The nickel defense consists of 5 defensive backs who try to prevent the wide receive ... consists of 5 defensive backs who try to prevent the wide receivers from catching the football.The nickel defense is a basic defensive formation that is designed to stop the pass. The alignment featu ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

A Nickel Ain't Worth A Dime: The Fed's Solution To The Inflation Problem.

In a quote by a famous American baseball player, Yogi Berra summarizes inflation very succinctly:"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."Inflation is the general increase in the price levels of goods an ...

(4 pages) 78 0 4.2 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

GSM case study.

g the appropriate steps to fend off disaster".In the case of Gulf States Metals Inc. (GSM), a large nickel refinery plant had suffered poor performance since its inception and is under threat of shut ...

(15 pages) 274 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Magnetism

d is caused by a magnetic field. This force strongly attracts ferromagnetic materials such as iron, nickel and cobalt. In magnets, the magnetic force strongly attracts an opposite pole of another magn ...

(2 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Information on the radioisotope: Cobalt 60 used in medicine and in industry

59. Then cobalt-59 captures a neutron and becomes cobalt-60, which is very unstable and decays into nickel 60.c) How does the radioisotope decay and state its half-life.Cobalt-60 undergoes radioactive ... the emission of beta particles and strong gamma radiation. It ultimately decays to non-radioactive nickel with a half-life of 5.24 years.d) Identify those properties of the radioisotopes that make it ...

(3 pages) 20 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

" A Nickels Worth Of Skim Milk"

A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk What a great story! I chose this book because it stood out amongst the m ... to survive in the most devastating stock market crash in history.Works Cited Hastings, Robert J. A Nickels Worth of Skim Milk. Carbondale: University Of Illinois, 1972.

(2 pages) 1053 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Chem Lab 5

lysis B) Narrative Introduction (Preperation): In part I of this experiment, my lab group created a nickel complex by using a Lewis base (NH3) and adding it to the Ni2+ metallic ion. When dissolved in ... x (how many ammonia molecules are bound to the metal Ni2+ ion).Procedure: After the creation of the nickel complex, we had to create a standardized NaOH solution by adding 25ml of 1.0M NaOH and adding ...

(2 pages) 28 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Grapes Of Wrath

ealt with in a way that demonstrates compassion and justice. In the book, a waitress named Mae sold nickel candy to a migrant family for a penny. We need to take care of, and be concerned about the en ...

(4 pages) 9 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers